On the one hand, finding out the openly fascist rich kid from apartheid South Africa shaped a company into a place where bigotry and racial discrimination are rampant is one of the least surprising things I’ve ever read.

On the other hand, that is an absolutely shocking level of racism for any kind of modern workplace. Like, fucking wow.

Between Trump and Musk, racists, misogynists and other -ists have been empowered and enabled. It’s like all the village idiots have been able to band together and promote their hate, instead of being called out and shut down by the rest of us.

Apartheid Clyde: “what? I don’t see anything wrong!”

Given Elon’s handling of twitter and his overall reputation. This is not all that surprising.

Elon moment…

This is the best summary I could come up with:

The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) sued Tesla yesterday, alleging that the electric carmaker violated the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by subjecting Black employees at its manufacturing facilities in Fremont, California, “to severe or pervasive racial harassment and created and maintained a hostile work environment because of their race.”

The agency alleged that throughout the period since 2015, "Black employees also encountered displays of racist graffiti, including swastikas, threats, and nooses.

Black employees have described the prevalence of racist imagery as ‘frequent,’ ‘constant,’ ‘a regular thing,’ and occurring ‘too many times to count.’"

Describing retaliation, the US agency alleged that "Tesla has fired Black employees within weeks of them reporting or opposing racial harassment.

After Black employees complained about racism, “Tesla’s supervisors and human resources officials retaliated against them through schedule changes, less desirable duties, reassignments, unjustified write-ups, and discharge,” the US agency said.

In June 2022, the EEOC issued a Letter of Determination to Tesla stating that it found “reasonable cause to believe” that Tesla had been violating the Civil Rights Act since May 29, 2015, “by subjecting Black employees who worked at its Fremont, California, facilities to a hostile work environment and by retaliating against Black employees who engaged in protected activity,” according to the lawsuit.

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California is supposed to be the bastion of liberal acceptance… How could this happen?

In any case, I can’t imagine treating your employees or any human beings this way (if true).

On the other hand, the last paragraph of the article makes it seem like these lawsuits are money grabs from an internationally hated businessman. Last year a plaintiff went from a guaranteed $15 million award, didn’t think it was enough and got greedy, and ended up with $3.2m.

Could it be any other reasons for this being reported? I just find it so hard to believe that this is something ongoing to this day, sounds like some 1920s crazy shit, is America really that racist?